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ERECHTHEUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, a mythical See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Athens, originally identified with Erichthonius, but in later times distinguished from him. According to See also:Homer, who knows nothing of Erichthonius, he was the son of Aroura (See also:Earth), brought up by See also:Athena, with whom his See also:story is closely connected. In the later story, Erichthonius (son of See also:Hephaestus and See also:Atthis or Athena herself) was handed over by Athena to the three daughters of Cecrops—Aglauros (or Agraulos), Herse and Pandrosos—in a See also:chest, which they were forbidden to open. Aglauros and Herse disobeyed the See also:injunction, and when they saw the See also:child (which had the See also:form of a snake, or See also:round which a snake was coiled) they went mad with fright, and threw themselves from the See also:rock of the See also:Acropolis (or were killed by the snake). Athena herself then undertook the care of Erichthonius, who, when he See also:grew up, drove out Amphictyon and took See also:possession of the See also:kingdom of Athens. Here he established the See also:worship of Athena, instituted the See also:Panathenaea, and built an See also:Erechtheum. The Erechtheus of later times was supposed to be the See also:grandson of Erechtheus-Erichthonius, and was also king of Athens. When Athens was attacked by the Thracian See also:Eumolpus (or by the Eleusinians assisted by Eumolpus) victory was promised Erechtheus if he sacrificed one of his daughters. Eumolpus was slain and Erechtheus was victorious, but was himself killed by See also:Poseidon, the See also:father of Eumolpus, or by a thunderbolt from See also:Zeus. The contest between Erechtheus and Eumolpus formed the subject of a lost tragedy by See also:Euripides; See also:Swinburne has utilized the legend in his Erechtheus. The See also:scene of the opening of the chest is represented on a Greek See also:- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
vase in the See also:British Museum. The name Erichthonius is connected with XBcav (" earth ") and the See also:representation of him as See also:half-snake, like See also:Cecrops, indicates that he was regarded as one of the See also:autochthones, the ancestors of the Athenians who sprung from the See also:soil.
See See also:Apollodorus iii. 14. 15; Euripides, See also:Ion; See also:Ovid, Metam. ii. 553; See also:Hyginus, Poet. astron. ii. 13; See also:Pausanias i. 2. 5. 8; E. Ermatinger, See also:Die attische Autochthonensage (1897); See also:article by J. A. Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites; B. See also:Powell in Cornell Studies, xvii. (1906), who identifies Erechtheus, Erichthonius, Poseidon and Cecrops, all denoting the sacred See also:serpent of Athena, whose cult she first contested, but then amalgamated with her own. The See also:birth of Erichthonius (as a See also:corn-spirit) is interpreted by Mannhardt as a mythical way of describing the growth of the corn, and by J. E. See also:Harrison (Myths and Monuments of See also:Ancient Athens, See also:xxvii.-See also:xxxvi.) as a fiction to explain the ceremony performed by the two maidens called Arrephori. See also Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, i. 27o; and Frazer's Pausanias, ii. 169.
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